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Github offers Github Pages that let you host web pages on Github. You create these by adding a branch to git called gh-pages, and this is often in addition to the default branch master. I just needed the gh-pages branch. So thanks to YJL, here’s the simplest way to do it. Create the repositoryon github. Create your local repository and git commitinto it. Type git push -u origin master:gh-pages In .git/config, under the [remote "origin"] section, add push = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/gh-pages The magic is the last :gh-pages.

If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are: The site is down A page is missing Javascript isn’t working I’ll talk about how I manage these over 3 articles. My site used to go down a lot. Initially that was because I kept playing around with mod_rewrite and other Apache modules without quite understanding them. I’d make a change and upload it without testing. (I’m like that.) And then I’d go to sleep. ...

Google’s dirty little secret talks about how Google determines whether your site appears on top for a search depending on whether you and the searcher are in the same geography or not. So if your server is in Kazakhstan, expect fewer hits.

Site Helper: simple instructions on how to get a web site up and running.

Google Music Search and the Home Page API. With the home page API, Google Base, and Blogger, looks like Google has bypassed conventional web hosting and become a Web 2.0 host.

Google domains is next, possibly leading into site hosting with 1GB space, and linkages with Blogger. Comments Bhuvan 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: nice to have you back Anand S Anand 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Font size of comments? Or the whole page? The latter can be increased through View - Text Size - Larger Sumeer 2 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: can you do something about the font sizes

Blogspamming: the new phenomenon. It works only if you have a referral log, and look at it. Unfortunately for me, thanks to my crazy domain hosting service, I am blogspam-immune. via kuro5hin

Anita’s article on domains and hosting.

The Mumbai Bloggers’ Meet photos are out of action. The site should be back some time today. The page is about 1.5MB (including pictures), and my quota is 50MB per day. So about 33 hits is enough to kill the page.

DomainsNext works out cheaper ($18) than Namezero ($25) for a 1-year registration. But is it worth the effort? Comments peytonman 3 Feb 2007 6:33 am: Actually domainsnext.com is only $11.95 for registration theyre the best peytonman 3 Feb 2007 6:33 am: And the hosting is good too on domainsnext peytonman 6 Feb 2007 12:43 am: http://www.domainsnext.com/ They also offer hosting and website creators

I hate this. “Beginning April 2, 2002, we – Geocities – will no longer provide FTP access as part of our free home page service.” Nice of them to let me know well in advance, though.